Boot menu was not available on a Mac OS X dual boot install

Nov 10, 2016 22:20 GMT  ·  By

Today, November 10, 2016, was the Fedora 25 Go/No-Go meeting, and it appears that the upcoming GNU/Linux distribution, which was scheduled for release next week, on November 15, was delayed by a week.

Platform and Fedora Program Manager Jan Kurik dropped the bad news earlier on the project's mailing list, and it now looks like the next planned GA (General Availability) date for the Fedora 25 Linux operating system is November 22, 2016. The release was delayed due to a bug in the boot menu, which was not visible on a Mac OS X dual boot install.

"The result for the Go/No-Go meeting for the Fedora 25 Final release is NO-GO. Due to a present blocker the decision is to slip the Fedora 25 Final release for a week," said Jan Kurik, Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. "The new GA data is planned on 2016-Nov-22. More information can be found in the meeting minutes."

Fedora 25 ships with Linux kernel 4.8, GNOME 3.22 desktop

Last week, we reported that the Fedora 25 operating system was in Final Freeze, the most important step in its development cycle, which means that no new package versions will be added to the repositories until the final release hits the streets. Only critical bugs were allowed during the Final Freeze stage.

The Final Freeze is still in place, and it looks like a critical bug blocks the final Fedora 25 release from hitting the streets on November 15. This will be the second delay the operating system receives during its entire development cycle. Fedora 25 promises exciting new features.

Among these, we can mention support for launching OpenGL apps and games with the discrete graphics cards via a new right-click context menu entry on the Workstation edition, which is using the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, official support for Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 SBCs, Linux kernel 4.8, and KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS.